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Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip--each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this man's incandescent memories--of the bleak North African desert, of explorers' caves and Bedouin tribesmen, of forbidden love, and of annihilating anger--that illuminate the story, and the consequences of the mysteries they reveal radiate outward in shock waves that leave all the characters forever changed.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: English Patient
• Author: Michael Ondaatje, Pico Iyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780307700872
• ISBN: 0307700879
• ID: 10977738
• Publisher: EVERYMANS LIB
• Weight: 426 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 212 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. October 2011

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